I was straightening my boys room for the fifth time that day and stopped to take a look at my accomplishment when I realized that no matter how many times I pick their things up it still looks like it's being taken over by millions of big, little, orange, blue, fuzzy, stuffed animals. This is not the first time I have realized this, it's just one of my many reoccurring thought processes that happens about once a month. So I continue the process by starting at the back of the room and going through each one to try and decided if it stays or goes. Here is how it works...
Animal #1 - Cameron brought this one back from his mission for me, I can't give this one up
Animal #2 - Grandma gave this to Brigham while he was in the hospital, it was his very first stuffed animal.
Animal #3 - I sent this one to Cameron on the mission while I was in New York, no way we are getting rid of it.
Animal #4 - Brigham sleeps with this one every night, the most sanitary thing would probably be to throw it in the trash but I already took his Binky away and am not willing to fight another battle like that.
Animal #5 - Way too cute to get rid of
Animal #6 - Well as long as we are keeping stuffed animals
And it ends there.
Why is it so easy to buy stuffed animals and yet so hard to get rid of them? They are just big and take up space and NEVER get played with. Ok maybe you mom's with girls out there have a different story to tell but unless my boys are shooting them with their guns, or tossing them at each other trying to knock each other down, they sit lifeless. Yet they are so compelling to buy. Mom's, grandma's, aunts, friends all feel compelled to buy them for their favorite baby boy or girl. Yes even I, knowing how much I can't stand my boys stuffed animals, still give in to the cute stuffed bear to give to a friend at their baby shower. It is disgusting how all of us girls are drawn to them.
Don't even get me started with the store Build - A - Bear. Probably the worst store in America. They prey on girls of all ages. Maybe we think if we stuff the bear ourselves then we will enjoy it more or the person we are getting it from will enjoy it more.....FALSE. Nice idea yes but poor execution. In weeks it is tossed on to the pile of other stuffed animals
I really don't think stuffed animals go with my boys sports themed room and since we don't have a big house with a toy room I must work up the courage to get rid of them, except for the one dressed in the baseball outfit, he's gotta stay. Oh and then there is the U of U bear, he's sports themed right?
5 comments:
I love all of your post because I totally agree with all of them. I have a basket filled with stuffed animals. They never get played with but for some reason I have to keep them. Everytime Clint's dad comes they bring more. Not just one but like a four or five. I have started to use them as bows for gifts when I wrap them.
Lucy loves exactly 1 of her five million stuffed animals. But I am a guilty purchasher of them, they are just so freaking cute.
i hate them for the same reason. The kids don't play with them or sleep with them, so out they go! There are still a few that I am having a hard time getting rid of.. they were given by great grandparents.... hmmm... it's tough.
Why is it that they are so easy to buy yet so hard to give away. I think out of the 20 or so we have Madi only plays with maybe 3 or 4.
I laugh ever y time I read your posts!! We miss you guys.
Andrea
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